Eat Dance Live

Aaah, the raw diet. How I love it. This is how we started our day: Banana Whipped Awesomeness: Breakfast Edition (strawberry is one flavor, and superfood-hemp is the other w/ grawnola) And this is how we ended our day: Banana Whipped Awesomeness Dinner Edition (strawberry with bee pollen and chia seeds... and who said raw food couldn't be fun for kids? This looks like carnival food!) I would have written more but we got caught up watching one of my growing-up faves, "A Knight's Tale." Oh, Heath Ledger, how you made my teen years a happier time.

I've established today that I could never be a raw foodist who mono-diets. By that I mean, I couldn't eat just bananas or just apples or just kale for a whole month, a week, or even for a couple days. I've been making green smoothies for 2/3 of my meals since Monday, and the desire to chew or just to eat something non-green has become somewhat overwhelming. Everything has been absolutely fantastic tasting, but I guess it's still just not cutting it. I finally food splurged this morning by not putting greens in my breakfast smoothie, and just had a "plain" papaya-frozen pineapple-superfood smoothie instead. It was legendary. Lunch was back to the greens. It was a beautiful 1/2 orange, 1/2 apple, 1 handful of lettuce, 1 big handful of parsley, 3 ice cubes, and one small piece of ginger smoothie. While I thought it would be vile, it was actually really good! I couldn't drink it fast enough (but for digestive reasons, remember to chew your smoothies!) I'm ...